[A/N: Ok, now let me set something straight, this story will follow the storyline of the anime, but in some chapters there will be references to SAO: progressive, such as the dark elves vs forest elves.
Now I know that there are a lot of people who didn't like the anime very much, (I enjoyed the fight scenes, and all the situations Kirito somehow got into, but that's pretty much it).
But I'm going with the anime story line, so I can get to the lightning thief arc of the story.
I am sorry if I wasn't clear on this in the first chapter, but when I first thought of this story, two days before I actually began to write it, I thought that if I didn't put the beginning on paper, I would forget about it and it would be lost for who knows how long.
So I was in a rush to get the beginning done.But anyways, 1 Chapter in this story will equal 1 full episode of SAO.
And I will be adding Events and other quest arcs into the story, but these will be on my custom floor, and will be mostly based off of greek/roman mythology (though mostly greek due to the romans just copying the myths and altering names and junk.)
Now that that's cleared up, lets get to the disclaimer]
Disclaimer: I don't own Sword Art Online or Percy Jackson... at all.
Percy was bored, the beta had ended about a month ago and he had nothing to do, except for school but he was bored there too.
Percy looked out the window to the view of the sea outside. Turns out Beta Testers in Japan get about 10,763.50 yen (100 US dollars) for every hour that they spend in the SAO beta.
Obviously Argus expected for SAO to be a huge hit and didn't worry about how much they money they were giving away.
But, since Percy spent nearly every moment he wasn't at school, on SAO, he had gotten quite a large sum of money.
School got out at 3:15, and it was about a 20 minute drive from the school to his family's former apartment. And his bed time (remember he is only 10 years old) was at 9:00. So he earned about $900 a day.
$900 (302) = $900 60.
So for the entire two months he earned a grand total of $54000. More than enough to buy a new house for Sally and Percy.
So, Percy and Sally decided to buy all 5 of the cabins of their favorite place in the world, Montauk. After buying the cabins, Sally rented out all but one of the cabins for about $100 a month.
The cabin that the didn't rent out became their new home.
Anyways, Percy while bored, was also excited. Why? Because today, after a month of waiting, SAO was going to be officially launched in both the US and in Japan, though only a hundred copies were being sold in the US.
Bing*
Percy turned to the computer he bought, and noticed that he had a video-chat invite.
"Must be Kirito." Percy muttered to himself, then he clicked [Accept].
"Yo." Kirito said, in Japanese, once Percy loaded into the chat.
"What's up?" Percy asked, in Japanese (courtesy of the NG).
"Not much, just checking to see if your ready to head back into SAO." Kirito explained.
"Yeah, I just gotta let my mom know before I head back in." Percy said.
"Alright, I'll meet you in the Town of beginnings." Kirito said.
"See you there." Percy said before the chat was ended.
Percy and Kirito had become fast friends over the two months, they had bonded over the fact that they felt that they didn't really belong, whether at home (Kirito) or at school (Percy).
During the beta Percy and Kirito had become partners, in fact Percy and Kirito were the two who got the farthest in the beta.
As such they trusted each other with their real Identities.
Kiriti was surprised to find out that his partner was a ten year old, but quickly got used to it.
Percy got up from his desk and went out of his room to the kitchen to his mother, who was making an early dinner.
The first day of SAO, due to it's popularity, was going to be broadcasted live to both American and Japanese families, something that Sally didn't want to miss, mostly due to her son being a SAO player.
"Oh Percy dinner's ready so before you login to SAO, be sure to eat." Sally told her son.
"Alright." Percy agreed, before sitting down and eating, alongside his mother.
After 10 minutes, Percy went to his room and logged in, while Sally sat and turned on her computer and linked up the live stream with her son's account so she could watch him "play" SAO.
Town of Beginnings - 1st floor.
Perseus, once he spawned in, noticed that he still had the starter equipment he bought in the beta.
"Oh... now I get why I couldn't sell the starter equipment, I needed it for when the full game began." Perseus mused.
"Now to find Kirito." Perseus said as he looked around.
After a few minutes of searching, he didn't find Kirito, so he just pulled up his friends list and saw that Kirito was outside of the city.
"Must've gotten bored of waiting and decided to do some grinding." Perseus deduced, before running to where Kirito was.
A few minutes later.
Perseus was running outside of the town, to where Kirito was, when he found him he saw that he wasn't alone.
With him was a man with longish purple hair, with a bandana on his head, and basic light armor and a basic curved sword.
The man was currently trying, and failing to to defeat Perseus' worst enemy, pigs.
Perseus walked up to the duo and waved to Kirito, who waved back.
Perseus stood beside Kirito as the man finally stood up from a rather nasty hit to the groin, and turned to face them and noticed Perseus.
"Hey Kirito, who's your friend?" The man asked.
"Name's Perseus, he was my partner during the beta." Kirito told the man.
"Oh really, well the Name's Klein, short sweet rolls off the tongue, ladies love it." Klein said to Perseus, who raised an eyebrow.
"Do they really?" Perseus said with some sarcasm in his tone."
"Well-"
"No they don't." Kirito inturrupted Klein, who sulked.
"That's just cold man." Sulked Klein.
"So Kirito let me guess, newbie asked you to show him the ropes." Perseus asked Kirito, who nodded.
"I see, and you brought him out here to fight some pigs so he could get stronger while he learned." Perseus finished.
"Yep." Kirito said.
"Alright, well I'll let you do that then, I'm gonna go do some grinding." Perseus said.
"Alright, ye mighty pig slayer." Kirito snickered.
"Oh shut up, those pigs are evil." Perseus and Klein shouted at the same time, causing them to look at each other.
"Well anyways, I'm gonna get going." Perseus said, before he wandered into the field to kill his mortal enemy.
"What happened with him when it comes to pig?" Klein asked Kirito, who chuckled and told Klein the story on how Kirito and Perseus met.
"So wait you telling me, they actually spawned around him, in a complete circle." Klein asked disbelievingly.
"Well that's what he told me, I don't know if it actually happened." Kirito said.
"Maybe he was exagerating." Klein said.
"Maybe, maybe not." Kirito shrugged.
While they were talking Percy returned and was about to call out to the two when a flash of blue light surrounded him, in a complete circle.
Kirito and Klein, having heard the sound of a monster spawning near them turned towards the sound, only for one of their jaws to drop.
The reason? Perseus was surrounded by pigs, in a complete circle.
"Oh son of a-" Percy shouted before jumping on to one of the pigs' head and leaping off and running away.
"N-no way, what kind of luck does this guy have for that to happen." Klein said in shock.
"The bad kind." Kirito said as he watched his partner running from the pigs that chased him.
Perseus was running from the pigs, before he had enough and turned and jumped onto the leader of the piggy brigade and used it as a springboard before stabbing it in the head, shattering it.
Perseus then went on a rampage, killing any and all pigs that he could see.
"He's like a force of nature with that sword of his." Klein said in awe.
"If you think he's strong against thise pigs you should've seen him when he fought in the beta." Kirito said to Klein.
"Really, was he really good." Asked Klein.
"Well, not at first, but after about two or three battles he quickly got the hang of fighting." Kirito explained.
"Ah. Oh look he killed them all." Klein said.
Perseus walked back to the two, sword still in hand (just in case those pigs respawn).
"I really hate pigs." Perseus said in annoyance.
"We can tell." Kirito and Klein said in unison.
"Well did you get any drops from them?" Kirito asked.
"Oh yeah." Perseus opened his inventory and scrolled down.
"Meat, meat and more meat, ooh what's this... a rare item." Perseus muttered as he listed the loot he got.
"A rare item from... pigs... why?" Klein asked.
"Who knows, anyways what's the item?" Kirito asked.
"..." Perseus stayed silent once he finished reading the descrption, before he burst out in to evil laughter.
"What is it?" Kirito asked.
"Finally, I will be able to vanquish my mortal enemy, the pig, with this weapon!" Perseus began as he equiped said weapon.
"... The Mythril Pebble of Pig Smiting!" Perseus shouted out the name of the weapon. [A/N: couldn't resist]
"..." Kirito and Klein stared as Perseus held up a glowing green ... pebble.
"That's it?" Klein asked.
"That's it? According to the description it has unlimited ammo and infinite durability. And it can instantly kill and pig related monster, even if it's a mini-boss or even a boss." Perseus said, appalled by Klein's question.
"Why put such a powerful weapon on the first floor?! What the hell!"Klein and Kirito thought.
10 minutes later. 5:20 pm.
Perseus, Kirito, and Klein were sitting on the ground and watching the sunset.
"Hey Kirito, thanks for helping me get started." Klein thanked said player.
"No problem." Kirito said to Klein.
"Well, it's time for me to log out so I can get my Pizza." Klein said before standing up and opened the menu, only to find the [logout] Icon missing.
"Wait what! Hey, where's the [logout] Icon?!" Klein shouted.
"What, it should be at the bottom of the main menu." Kirito told him.
"Yeah, but it's not there." Klein told him.
Perseus opened the menu and looked for the [logout] Icon, and saw it was blank.
"He's right Kirito, it's gone." Perseus confirmed.
"No way." Kirito said as he checked for himself.
"Maybe it's a bug, there are bound to be some, I mean the game did just come out of the beta." Klein rationalized.
"Maybe." Perseus said but he had a bad feeling.
Before he could voice his concerns however, Perseus and the others were consumed in a bright flash of blue light.
Town of beginnings
Perseus and the other appeared in the town, surrounded by all of the other players in the game.
"Someone forced a teleport." Kirito muttered.
"Yeah, but who?" Perseus also muttered.
"Maybe it was the GM." Klein said.
Kirito was about to respond when the sky began to turn red with the word warning written on red Hexagon.
And the sky began to "bleed".
The "blood" took the shape of a man in a red cloake that shadowed his face completely, making it seem like he didn't have a face.
The crowd was restless, many people were whispering to one another.
"Good evening, players of Sword Art Online." The man spoke, silencing the crowd.
"My name in Kayaba Akihiko. I would like to welcome you all to my world." Kayaba introduced.
"What does he mean by that?" Klein asked Kirito who shrugged.
"Now some of you have probably noticed that the [logout] Icon is missing from your menu, and have assumed it was a bug. Now allow me to correct you, this isn't a bug of SAO." Kayaba explained.
"This was part of the SAO design from the beginning. Now, there is no way for you to escape from SAO. The only way to leave this world is to beat all 100 hundred floors of Aincrad, and clear the game." Kayaba told the slowly panicing populous.
"I should also tell you that if you die in the game you die in real life, and if any one attempts to remove the Nerve Gear from a player it will emit a microwave pulse and destroy the player's brain. The same goes for if you die in this world." Kayaba told the players, who began to realize just how fucked thay were.
"Many have ignored my warning and removed the NG, causing 213 or so players to die." Kayaba told them, and a bunch of boxes with videos of the current situation being broadcast on news channels all over the globe.
"As some of you know, SAO is a world without magic, so I have added elemental swordskills and runes in hopes to give you all better chance of surviving." Kayaba told them.
" And I have left you a gift in you inventories." Kayaba told them.
Everyone opened their inventory and scrolled to the bottom and saw the words Magic Mirror. They selected it and a mirror appeared in their hands, before once again they were engulfed in blue light.
When the light died down, it revealed that everyone looked different that before.
"Hey Kirito..." Klein said, now he had red hair that spikes up and a rather scruffy face.
Kirito who had black hair and black/silver eyes and a slightly effeminant face, turned to Klein and said "Who are you."
"I'm me who are you." Klein said.
"Can we all just calm down for a second." Perseus said to the duo.
Klein turned to Perseus and his jaw dropped, the reason was because Perseus now looked exactly like he did in real life, that wasn't what shocked him though, the fact that Perseus was a ten year old is what did.
"I have used the NG to alter your appearances to you real look." Kayaba explained.
"And so I, Kayaba Akihiko, wish you luck on your journey to clearing the game, Goodbye." Kayaba said as he faded away.
Someone screamed, throwing everything into chaos.
Kirito looked at his hand and clenched it in to a fist.
Perseus looked shocked at where Kayaba had vanished, before he looked at the mirror.
"Mom," Perseus muttered, knowing his mother was watching through his avatar's eyes, "Don't worry, I will get out of here and come home, no matter how long it takes."
"Come on." Kirito said as he grabbed Klein and Perseus and began to run to an empty ally.
"Klein, we know every nook and cranny of this floor, how about you come with us and help us get everyone out of this game." Kirito told/asked Klein who shook his head.
"Sorry man, but I've got friends back there who need my help, and I can't leave them behind." Klein told Kirito and Perseus.
"I see, well then the least we can do for you is give you the means to survive." Perseus said, giving Klein the map data of floor one.
"... Thanks." Klein said.
Kirito had his back turned to the two, he was crying, he didn't want to leave his friend behind.
"Now Klein, go protect and teach those friends of yours, that is all I ask in exchange for the map data, don't let a single one die." Perseus said his hair shadowed his eyes.
"..." Kirito stayed silent.
"..." Klein also silent, before he grinned,
"Of course... just who the hell do you think I am!" Klein said with a thumbs up to them (not that Kirito could see it with his back turned) before he walked away.
Kirito turned to say something to Klein, but he was to late, Klein was gone.
"..." Kirito stood there with wide eyes, just now fully realizing their situation.
"Lets go Kirito, we need to get stronger to clear this game." Perseus said softly.
Kirito grit his teeth together, before turning and running out of the city, with Perseus right beside him.
A wolf mob spawned and aggroed to Kirito, who took out his longsword and used a Sword Skill, cutting it in half.
After the lag, Kirito took off running towards the the area where he knew where the best sword for three floors, the [Anneal Blade, would be, with Perseus following him.
"I'll get stronger, and clear this game, no matter what." Kirito thought to himself as he rushed onwards.
[A/N: Alright that's the next chapter of: SAO: The Hurricane Swordsman. I hope you enjoy.]
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